Josie Laird Davis Herrin, 88, of Kountze was called home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ at Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth on June 29, 2007. Josie was born in Hardin County in the Little Rock Community September 6, 1918 to the Reverend Tom Laird and Myrtie Brown Laird. She was part of a set of twins. Josie was a lifelong member of Little Rock Assembly of God Church. She was a Christian mother of eight children and loved her heavenly father and loved to talk about him every chance she got.
Other than her parents, she was preceded in death by the love of her life, her husband of thirty years and father of her children, Edward Lawrence “Joe” Davis; sons, Luther, Carlton, and LaVerne “Shorty” Davis; one grandson, Micheal Lynn Davis; one grand-daughter, Sharen Kay “Sissy” Davis and one great-greatgrandson, Hunter Creason; brothers, Amos, Albert, Ed, and Jim Laird; and a sister, Irene Anderson.
Those left to cherish her memory are her twin brother, Jessie C. Laird of Kountze; sister, Evalina Jones of Vidor; sons, William John Davis and wife Barbara of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, Jerry Laird Davis and wife Lynda of Kountze, and Ralph David Davis and wife Barbara of Nederland; daughters, Esta Lois Cain and husband Eldon of Kountze and Wilma Joyce Wimer of Kountze; and a host of cousins, nephews, and nieces.
Josie was blessed with twenty-two grandchildren, thirty-five great-grandchildren, and nine great-greatgrandchildren.
A gathering of family and friends will be from 5:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M., Saturday, June 30, 2007 at Broussard’s, 530 W. Monroe, Kountze. Her service will be 2:00 P.M. Sunday, July 1, 2007 at Little Rock Assembly of God Church, Hwy. 326, Kountze, with Reverends Mike Brown, John Davis, and Earnest Brown officiating. Interment will follow at Hooks Cemetery off Hwy. 69, South of Kountze.
